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Dr Lyn Wilson, HES digital documentation manager and project manager at The Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation (CDDV), said: "As part of the Scottish Ten project, my team and I were delighted to be given the opportunity to document digitally the iconic Nagasaki Crane and other fantastic sites.

"The Japanese are rightly very proud of these important, extremely well-preserved monuments to their industrial heritage, and we in Scotland should be proud of them too, as many were designed and built by pioneering Scottish engineers."

Alastair Rawlinson, head of data acquisition at GSA and lead for the Scottish Ten project, said: "We were very pleased when the sites were recognised by Unesco.

"The creation of these stamps and coins not only helps to celebrate that, but potentially raises awareness of these sites to people in Japan and further afield, helps to protect them in the long run and strengthens historic links between our two countries."

Koko Kato, director of the National Congress of Industrial Heritage and special adviser to the Japanese government, said: "We are delighted to have collaborated with the CDDV team to digitally document the Meiji Industrial Heritage Sites and for these to be recognised by Unesco last year.

"We are now excited to commemorate the global significance of these sites through the issue of these special stamps and coins."